Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

Horace Mann

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Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

Thomas Campbell

My precious.

Gollum, The Lord Of The Rings (2002)

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !

Albert Einstein

Love can be understood only from the inside, as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it, as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.

Robert C. Solomon

The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Anthony Robbins

Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful, it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things.

Corinthians

Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.

Marion G. Romney

Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

Allard Lowenstein

Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.

Anthony Robbins

All-righty then !

Ace Ventura, Ace Ventura (1994)

Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Erich Fromm

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Dale Carnegie

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Dennis Waitley

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.

Braveheart

None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

Proverb

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William Arthur Ward

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen

Be all you can be.

John C. Maxwell

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Dennis Waitley

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Fortune favors the brave.

Publius Terence

Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.

Sidney Jourard

You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.

Publius Terence

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Norman Vincent Peale

The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.

Martha Washington

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.

Richard Bach

The successful man is the average man, focused.

Anonymous

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war, love is a growing up

James Baldwin

Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.

Ayn Rand

Can you dig it ?

Youngblood Priest, Superfly (1972)

Love conquers all things, let us too surrender to love.

Virgil

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel

A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

Dennis Waitley

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Albert Einstein

Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Unknown

Where there's life, there's hope.

Terence

The heart that loves is always young.

Greek Proverb

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

Samuel Goldwyn

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?

Anonymous

No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.

Dennis Waitley

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Malcolm Forbes

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.

William Shakespeare

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.

Eileen Caddy

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

Sanctuary !

Quasimodo, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (1939)

Life is the first gift, love is the second.

Marge Piercy

Let's roll.

Todd Beamer

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Anne Frank

There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.

Anonymous

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.

St. Francis De Sales

Ninotchka, it's midnight. One half of Paris is making love to the other half.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

Rosemonde Gerard

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Anthony Robbins

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !

Jerry Van Amerongen

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard

There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.

Karl Jaspers

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Alan Watts

If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.

Francis Bacon

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Karl Menninger

How many doctors does it take to screw in a light bulb ? That depends on whether it has medical insurance.

Unknown

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Unknown

An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.

Chinese Proverb

Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

General Peter Schoomaker

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.

Anonymous

There are simply too many notes.

Emperor Joseph II, Amadeus (1984)

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this is love.